After the meeting, Jiang Xianyun and Huang Ke changed into casual clothes and walked out of the gate of the Ministry of National Defense, and then walked all the way along the main road, walking in the direction of Xuanwu Lake, while Shishizai and others followed behind in civilian clothes to protect their safety.

Since the last attack in Guangzhou, Huang Ke has tightened his control over military power, first strengthening the contact with the generals of the old Xiguan faction, and then forming his own air force and navy, at the same time, he also cares about the promotion of the mechanized group army system in the army, and the first batch of mechanized group armies is controlled by Huang Ke's descendant Xue Boling.

Although he has firmly grasped the three armies, Huang Ke has not relaxed his grip on high-level generals, and it is necessary to cultivate his own people at the top. Liao Zhongkai is in the hands of the council, and he can be regarded as having the grace of knowing Huang Ke, so Huang Ke still transferred a company of guards and pre-cadres to protect Liao Lao at all times when his guards were very nervous, which also allowed him to avoid many assassinations and attacks.

Among the important ministries and commissions of the state, the Ministry of Industry is Huang Ke's old foundation, although Li Siguang and these scientists are rarely linked to politics, but they are still closely united with Huang Ke in terms of political position, and the subordinate military enterprises are also controlled by Huang Ke, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Huang Ke is in favor of the government and the opposition.

However, these alone are not enough, Huang Ke not only needs political allies, but also brothers who really have a heart to heart, Jiang Xianyun once followed Huang Ke to fight in the north, and his friendship can be described as not shallow, but some time ago he had close contacts with the Red Party, which also made his relationship with Huang Ke a little farther away.

Fortunately, now the world is decided, and the composition of the new government has also dissipated the previous estrangement, the so-called multiple friends and multiple roads, not to mention that Jiang Xianyun was originally his own person.

In early autumn, Jinling City is still sultry, but in the evening along the lake is much cooler, the lake is full of people who come to enjoy the cool, there are also hawkers set up stalls here to do business, a fresh breeze hits, the people on the shore feel a lot less heat.

Both of them were wearing satin robes and cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles, and Jiang Xianyun was also wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

However, the two of them are indeed the supreme commanders of the country's army, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them. However, Huang Ke is a person who doesn't like so many cumbersome things, and whenever he has the opportunity, he will change into casual clothes and go for a walk, or go to the streets and alleys to eat a bowl of steaming noodles, such days make him feel down-to-earth.

The two shuttled through the crowd, neither fast nor slow. Huang Ke held a fine Luzon cigar in his hand and chatted with Jiang Xianyun from ancient times to the present.

"Brother Xiangyun is from Hunan, and he has been fighting in the south and the north before coming to Nanjing this time, I don't know if I have ever been to this Xuanwu Lake?"

Jiang Xianyun smiled and said: "I have been to Nanjing several times, but I am in a hurry. After moving the capital to Nanjing, the military affairs were busy, not to mention coming out to see the Xuanwu Lake, even the pool behind the Ministry of National Defense, I didn't turn around carefully. Today, it is through your light that I have the privilege of visiting here. To tell you the truth, I was also from a poor family, and my father was just a poor scholar, and I was a little uncomfortable with those splendid environments, just like the cigar you are smoking now, which is a little out of place in this environment. ”

Jiang Xianyun's heartfelt words made Huang Ke very useful, he is also a poor temperament, Jiang Xianyun can say such things to him, and naturally he does not regard him as an outsider or a colleague.

Huang Ke smiled and extinguished the cigar in his hand, and looked around before he realized this, although it is really the capital of the government, but from the perspective of the people's dress, they are still very poor, and the Luzon cigar that Huang Ke pressed is worth half a year's expenses of the poor people's family.

"There is a duck blood vermicelli shop in front of me that looks good at business, let's try it." At Huang Ke's suggestion, the two came to the store and sat down, and the guy greeted him in an authentic Nanjing dialect.

After sitting down, the two ordered some salted duck, braised duck palms, and some Nanjing specialties, and asked the boss to get a few hairy crabs, and then a pot of rice wine with a low degree and sat down. There was no private room in this small restaurant, so Huang Ke and the others chose to sit down at a table near the lake and talked about Xuanwu Lake.

The fourteen boys also sat down at the table next to them as diners, and after ordering some food and drink, they also began to pretend to eat and drink like normal diners. The shopkeeper noticed this special group of guests, the two who came before were extraordinary, and the few men who followed behind were all with uniform short hair, sharp eyes, obvious facial contours, and bulging things around the waist.

Huang Ke was chatting and laughing with Jiang Xianyun here, but there was a loud shout of gongs and drums, Huang Ke put down the wine glass in his hand and followed the voice, and Fourteen Tsai was very clever to say a word to an inch-headed man next to him, and the man walked over there to check the situation.

After a while, the man came back, and after he whispered a few words to Fourteen Tsai, Fourteen Tsai walked up to Huang Ke and reported the situation in a low voice.

"Boss, there are two brothers and sisters in front of me who are selling their bodies to bury their mothers, and the corpses have been put away for a while, and if you don't get them, they will stink. An unruly person fell in love with the girl who wanted to dominate her, and I had someone teach her a lesson. ”

After Fourteen Tsai said these things concisely, Huang Ke and Jiang Xianyun glanced at each other, meaning to see what was going on?

The two got up and called the boss to settle the bill, and when the boss came over, the two rummaged through their bodies but found that they didn't have any money. The shopkeeper's face changed slightly, but he still tried his best to laugh and said, "It's okay, it's okay to let people go back and get it." ”

Huang Ke and Jiang Xianyun couldn't cry or laugh, they didn't expect the two of them to fall to such a point. But he was still fourteen clever, and after he saw it, he waved his hand and said, "Boss, I paid all their money together." ”

After saying that, Fourteen took out a few silver dollars from his pocket and put them on the table, and the boss smiled when he saw it.

When Huang Ke was about to leave, the shopkeeper picked up the silver dollar on the table with one hand, and asked with a smile: "Are you going to take a look at the girl who bought it?" ”

Huang Ke nodded: "Yes, what advice does the boss have?" ”

"Seeing that the teaching is gone, I see that you two are also decent people, and when you see this kind of thing, you naturally want to pull it. Don't say I'm ruthless, it's not that I don't have the kindness to help this kind of thing, but you really can't help. The boss said earnestly, he expected that Huang Ke and the others must be rich businessmen who traveled south and north.

When the shopkeeper said this, Huang Ke felt even more strange: "How could the shopkeeper have such an idea? ”

The shopkeeper did not shy away from it, and said bluntly: "You saved them for a while, do you want to save them for the rest of your life?" The hooligan was driven away just now, and the brother and sister were all right, and the next road was only on their own, not to mention how many people like this there are in this Nanjing City? ”

"No less than that!" The shopkeeper stretched out his chubby oily hand, and an index finger dangled in the air. Afraid that Huang Ke and they didn't understand, the shopkeeper exaggeratedly said: "One hundred thousand!" There are no less than 100,000 people, do you think you can save them? What if you have a lot of money? ”

"How can there be so many people? Who are these people? Jiang Xianyun asked.

"Escape! It's all from Wuhan to escape the famine, hey! Two oceans can buy a yellow flower girl, and a full meal can collect a strong laborer, do you say that human life is cheap? The kilns on the other side of the Qinhuai River are now all teenage chicks......"

The shopkeeper spat at the stars and flew around, and also painted a vivid description of his experience a few days ago, Huang Ke's heart was deeply touched, he knew about the Yangtze River flood that happened not long ago, but he didn't manage these things, he didn't know how it was going, he thought that after the rescue, the flood would be fine, but he didn't expect that there would be so many refugees, is this the style of a new government?

Huang Ke and Jiang Xianyun stepped forward, the two small children were already preparing to pack up the bodies of their relatives and leave, and when they were about to leave, they didn't expect the big-nosed man to come over just now, and this time he also brought a few men with bare breasts.

"Which stupid bully my brother? Dare to cheat my brother out of his money! A fat man led by a scolding came over, and the onlookers immediately dispersed a road, and several men walked more horizontally.

The skinny boy stood in front of the girl, holding a wooden stick that was not long in his hand, and his eyes were full of murder.

"! Isn't that what it says, 'Sell yourself to bury your mother'? My brother gave you money and you want to repay the debt, isn't this a cheat? The fat man kicked the sign away, grabbed the girl's arm and pulled it back. Where are the emaciated brother and sister opponents of these men, and after a while, the girl was dragged away by the man with one leg on the ground, and her younger brother wanted to stop it, but was kicked away. But even so, none of the onlookers around dared to stand up.

Suddenly, several men in black lapel uniforms blocked the way of several men, and when the red nose was about to say that it was the kid who hit me, the officer at the pre-trunk slapped me down, and the red nose lost a few teeth.

When the fat boss realized that something was wrong and wanted to pull out the guy on his body to resist, the man headed by shook the officer ID card in his trouser pocket in front of the fat man's eyes, and the fat man immediately understood that this was a hard stubble.

He immediately let go of the girl and knelt on the ground, apologized vigorously and said good things, Fourteen Tsai's face was cold, and he waved his hand More than a dozen guards at the pre-dry place came up, and the big eight pistols just produced by the Hanyang factory resisted the heads of several people, and the cold muzzle and crisp loading sound made a few hooligans who usually run rampant in the township scared all the shit and urine.

"Commander, do you really want to be here or pull it back?" Fourteen Tsai made a killing gesture, according to Huang Ke's temper, he really wanted to kill these people in public, but after thinking about it, reason still prevailed, he waved his hand and said let him be transferred to the police station.

By the way, Huang Ke mentioned again, replace the police chief of this piece.

After saving the two siblings, Huang Ke did not continue shopping, but took the two to his home. During the inquiry, it was learned that the brother and sister were only thirteen or fourteen years old this year, the elder sister was called the eldest girl, and the younger brother was called the second child.

After hearing what happened to the two siblings, Huang Ke couldn't help sighing, he ordered someone to bury their mother, and then asked the two if they would like to follow him home.

The two siblings glanced at each other, and when the elder sister suddenly asked seriously, "Then do you have red taro noodles to eat at home?" ”

Huang Ke nodded, touched the heads of the two children and said, "Yes, I have everything at home." ”

The eldest girl and the second child followed Huang Ke home, and Huang Ke and Jiang Xianyun lived in several palaces not far from Xuanwu Lake. The two of them tiptoed as if they had arrived at the Heavenly Palace, with the tall garden buildings, the red gates, the guards with guns at the door, and most importantly, the cars in his house.

The two children were stunned and didn't close their mouths all the way, and they didn't even dare to make a sound. When she arrived in the living room, Zhao Xiaowan was finishing eating with the children, and she was very puzzled when she saw Huang Ke bring back the two children. She is not a narrow-minded person, and when she heard about the life experiences of the two children, Zhao Xiaowan hurriedly ordered her subordinates to prepare some meals.

The two brothers and sisters had the best meal in their lives, not only the white mask they had never eaten before, but also all kinds of chicken, fish, meat and egg dishes, and the two children had to eat with round bellies, but Huang Ke stopped it, he knew that letting them eat it all the time would kill him.

The two children were also very obedient, and after eating, they stood there and did not dare to move. Huang Ke immediately decided to let them recognize him as their father-in-law, he asked the two children whose surname was Sima, and both children shook their heads, their father had left early, and their mother had no name, so they didn't know their names at all.

Huang Ke renamed his two children Huang Ying and Huang Zheng, and they were in his house in the future. The two children who have no father and no mother have a good parent, and they are naturally happy, Huang Ke asked his grandmother to take them to take a shower and change clothes, and then arranged two rooms for them to live in, and he returned to the study.

Sitting in front of the desk, Huang Ke brought the manuscript paper, wrote a few words, and then crumpled it into a ball and threw it in the paper basket, after throwing away a dozen pieces of paper, he took the money and said to the phone with the No. 1 special line in front of him: "Give me Chairman Wang!" ”

The phone has not yet been connected, at this time a red phone on the table rang, Huang Ke knew that this was a military line, and there must be important military information when he called at this point, he picked up the receiver and heard Bai Chongxi's anxious voice from the other side; "Commander Huang, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack in Shenyang......"